Fasque Castle
Fasque Castle near Fettercairn in Aberdeenshire is a Scottish Baronial country house of the 1820s that became the family home of William Ewart Gladstone, four times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, whose father Sir John Gladstone purchased the estate in 1829. The interior preserves its Victorian character with unusual completeness, the rooms and their contents essentially unchanged since the Gladstone family occupied them, creating an exceptional time-capsule record of Victorian upper-class domestic life with personal objects associated with one of the most remarkable Victorian statesmen. The nearby town of Fettercairn is home to one of Scotland's oldest distilleries, and the broader landscape of the Howe of the Mearns and the Grampian foothills is the setting for Lewis Grassic Gibbon's northeast Scotland novels.